Sending the Sports World to Therapy Since 2013.
Shockers Are #5; Can They Keep Winning? At the rate that Wichita State is winning these days, they’re going to need to find another nickname for their basketball team. Because let’s be frank: the Shockers aren’t shocking anyone. (Ah, the apt pun.) In 2013, Wichita State was the surprise #8 seed that broke through the […]
Louisville 82, Michigan 76; Hancock Named MOP For two weeks, the NCAA Tournament was defined by upsets. At the Final Four, the #1 overall seed Louisville Cardinals put an end to 2013’s March Madness once and for all. Led once again by the brilliant play of reserve forward Luke Hancock, the Cardinals defeated a game […]
Louisville, Michigan collide for 2013 NCAA Title So it’s come to this. Countless dreams and thousands of inspirations stories have narrowed themselves down from 68 teams, to four regions, to two survivors. Tonight, those 2 produce one winner. The Michigan Wolverines and Louisville Cardinals square off in Atlanta in the NCAA Championship game. For the […]
Luke Hancock and Mitch McGary Star in Wins Prior to tipoff Saturday night, the predictions were almost unanimous. Louisville would coast by the Wichita State Shockers by double-digits, and Trey Burke and Michael Carter-Williams would square off in a battle of phenomenal sophomore point guards. In true 2013 NCAA Tournament fashion, neither of those “certainties” […]
SidelineMOB Picks the Final Four Semifinals It’s come down to four. 68 schools came to the Big Dance, and 64 have been sent home. In their wake are the 4 schools that survived, advanced and outlasted them all. The 2013 Final Four has everything a college basketball fan could want, and four teams that perfectly […]
Trey Burke, Jim Larranaga win 2013 AP NCAA Awards The Associated Press handed out its two most prestigious college basketball awards on April 4th, and both went to deserving honorees. Trey Burke, sophomore point guard for the Final Four-bound Michigan Wolverines, was named AP National Player of the Year. Jim Larranaga, the head coach of […]
Louisville Controls Game from Start to Finish; Beats Duke to Advance to Final Four After a commanding performance by the #1 overall seed Louisville Cardinals, the Final Four is set. Louisville became the last, and incidentally highest seeded, team to reach the Final Four, with an impressive victory over Duke at Lucas Oil Stadium in […]
Wolverines Chomp Gators, 79-59, Win South Region Can someone go to the Florida Gators‘ hotel and tell the players they missed the game? Okay, that may be a bit harsh, but let’s be fair – when Mitch McGary‘s jumper made it 13-0, the game was pretty much over 3 minutes in. The #4 seed Michigan […]
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